The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-01-27
FARM AND F,ResIoE.

TO prevent mustard-plasters from
blistering, mix with the white Of an
sgg.
A good Cracker Pudding: Roll four
large crackers to one quart of milk; one
egg; bake till It comes just to boil.
Don't sweeten till eat. Splendid for
lyspeptics. Blade.
I'm the matter Of raising crops
cheaply, it is safe to lay down the prin-
,iple that large crops cost less to the
acre than small ones.-Chicago Journal.
Kerosene will cure the scaly legs
on fowls. Anoint the legs once week
with kerosene for three or four weeks
and the legs will become perfectly
clean.--Phiiadelphid Record.
Now that cold weather has set in.
take care that all the fowls are well
sheltered at all times. They need a lit
tic heat now, and an occasional feed of
corn at night, slightly parched, will
help along.-7'roy Times.
The skin of boiled egg is the most
efficacious remedy that can be applied
to boil. Peel it carefully, wet and
apply to the part affected. 1t will draw
off the matter and relieve the soreness
in few hours.-Erchangr.
1t is said that a solution Of pilocar-
pine, two grains to the ounce Of water,
injected into the tooth cavity will cure
neuralgia caused by bad teeth. From
an eighth to qnarter of grain seems
sufficient to check the pain in the course
Of an hour.-Health and Home.
The fact is very suggestive that the
egg supply falls off most rapidly while
the days are shortening, and is smallest
always during the months when the
hours Of sunshine are the fewest. No
preparation for getting eggs in winter
is complete which does not provide. be-
sides warmth and good feeding, plen-
tiful supply of sunshine.
Farmer.
In answer to the question, "Does
alsike clover make dark-colored honey?"
several correspondents of the Bee Jour
nal say it does not. Others say it makes
n honey slightly darker than that from
white clover, but not as dark as buck
wheat honey. One reply says alsike
clover honey has pinkish color; anoth-
er that it is every way equal to white
clover honey.
| Lemon Custard: Beat together one
cup of sugar, one teaspoonful butter,
three eggs and the juice and grated
rind of one lemon. Put three cups of
milk in basin on the stove, and, when
it comes to boil. add the beaten eggs,
sugar, ETC.. stirring quickly all the
time. When thoroughly mixed, set it
in the oven and bake about twenty min
utes, or until set.-7he Caterer.
Have you found some of your fowls
with one side of the head swollen up:
If you examine you will probably find
that the affected fowl sleeps in q
draught; probably there is crack in
the side Of the building, and the bird
roOsts in position where the draugh,
strikes the side of the head. Shut ul
the crack and bathe the fowls heat
with coal oil and lard, and all will b,
well in few days.-M E. Farmer.
-Candied Citron: Peel and seed tn,
citron; let it lay over night in veal
sugar water. Next morning drair
through a colander, take one pound o
granulated sugar to one pound o
citron; put the sugar on and boil unit
quite thick sirup is formed, then drol
the citron in and cook slowly until it i
very tender and clear; when done pou
on plates and set in warm place t.
dry then sprinkle with granulatet
sugar and keep in glass jars.-Erchange
If well laid, stone drain shoult
last as long as one of tile. If con
siderable amount of stone is used ant
there is good outlet stone drain will
never fill up so that some water will
not pass through it. Too great fal
} or too large an amount of water is ap
to displace stones. Hence attempts t,
make the stone in the form of an arcl
often fail. One side or the other i
liable to be displaced. and presently
stone is pushed into the channel. Eartl
accumulates around this and the eff
cheney of the drain is impaired. Til
set in ditch just wide enough to re
ceive it can not easily be displaced
Western Rural.